http://www.microsoft-watch.com/article2/0,2180,1938275,00.asp
Microsoft's Engineering Excellence unit, headed by 20-year company veteran Jon DeVaan, is overseeing a project to reengineer the way software is developed inside Microsoft. DeVaan, a member of Microsoft's central Business Leadership Team,
manages the engineering standards used to create Microsoft's software products
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blowdart
Peek-a-boo
Way to misread the article.
They're talking about frequent beta/CTP builds, which apparently are only a feature of open source (way to miss the whole agile "movement" there Mary)
However holding up VS2005 and SQL2005 as successes for the CTP process might annoy a few people who are not happy with the quality of those poducts. Not to mention the missing features. -
I have a feeling that the lack of Avalon and Indigo builds for post-Beta 2 versions of .NET Framework 2.0 actually kept most people from testing the release candidates of VS and SQL Server 2005. It certainly stopped me from testing them - to the limited extent I was testing them.
Anyone else? -
Andrei P
Geekpedia.com
Yesterday I was seeing "Microsoft moves to open source" titles degenerated from this story. It's incredible what people understand or want to understand from a story simple as this. Here's the accurate story: http://www.redmondtimes.com/news/12/Microsoft-may-give-up-beta-versioning
Basically they are giving up beta versions of the software in favor of frequent previews. Which I believe is a very good change. -
rjdohnert
You will never know success until you know failure
Does Mary Jo Foley need another spanking?
blowdart wrote:
They're talking about frequent beta/CTP builds, which apparently are only a feature of open source (way to miss the whole agile "movement" there Mary)
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blowdart
Peek-a-boo
rjdohnert wrote:Does Mary Jo Foley need another spanking?
You know all she'll do is cut and paste something from this thread as a new "news article"
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